Programming with the 2009 controller

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Originally Posted by neutrino15

I think it's great that FIRST has expanded our variety of IDEs.. I read on the 2009 PDF that Windriver is basically Eclipse.. Can somebody please explain? Is Windriver some comerical spinoff of a perfectly good Open Source project? Or is it just a set of plugins for the standard Eclipse IDE?

Eclipse as a whole is a set of plugins for a very small core platform. The open source components include that core platform and various development tools that can turn Eclipse into and IDE. One of these open source development tools is the CDT (C/C++ Development Tooling). However, the open source product only integrates with variants of GCC (and I think possibly Visual C++ in the latest version). So WindRiver basically added support for their compilers, debuggers, etc. to the CDT (which does require a good deal of effort) and repackaged it and sells it to you as WindRiver Workbench. Their website for it is here.